Crampscastle

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crampscastle, from 78 m² to 206,502 m² (20.65 ha, 51.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G1Amenity (Open space, park)
  Tipperary County Development Plan 2022_2028 Settlement Plans, Tipperary · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 15 Jun 2026Conditional

  the alterations and additions to the existing dwelling house. The proposed works include the demolition of an existing single-storey extension to the western side of the dwelling, the demolition of an adjoining store house, the construction of a new two-storey extension to the western side of the existing dwelling, and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660579

• 11 Mar 2026Conditional

  the alterations to existing site entrance at the property including boundary set back and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660221

• 29 Jan 2025Conditional

  the construction of a (i) slatted shed with loose area, (ii) walled manure area and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2560053

• 16 Sept 2024Conditional

  (i) stable building with effluent tank to replace existing stable building, (ii) access roadway and all associated site works and demolition of stable building also required

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460776

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, mechanical aeration unit, soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 18600863

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137

Recorded monuments

• TS070-045001 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture on top of low rise, enclosing castle (TS070-045002-) to S, W and N. Roughly D-shaped area (dims. 93.8m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by natural scarp (Wth 16m; H 1.8m) to W and N. Levelled short return of possible man-made scarp NE-ENE. Post and wire field fence defines straight side to E. Scarp (Wth 2.4m; H 1.3m) incorporated into field boundary along S-side and external fosse (Wth 4.95m; D 0.3m) define the enclosure SE-S-SW. Large chunks (Wth c. 1.2m) of masonry within fosse may be from castle. According to local information, the settlement within was known as Crampstown and comprised of small random rubble stone built houses, which had collapsed and were covered in briars. Large mound (40m N-S; 13m E-W; H over 2.5m) of earthen and stone material abuts scarp at SE and may be 1970s clearance material of the settlement. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-045002 Castle - hall-house
  Description

  Towards the W end of a fairly level E-W ridge in undulating terrain, in rough pasture and within the E quadrant of a D-shaped enclosure (TS070-045001-). Fethard's Holy Trinity church (TS070-040001-) and Augustinian Abbey (TS070-040004-) are visible 1km to the SW. Cramp's Castle belonged to the Earls of Ormond and during the 15th century it was a place of some importance as it was frequently a venue for the monthly sessions of the county court of the liberty (or palatinate) of Tipperary (Empey 1985, 91). The earliest reference to these court sittings, at 'Crumpiscastell', is from January 1410 (COD, II, 289), but it is referred to by name a century earlier, in the rentals of the baronies of Kiltinan and Knockgraffon of 1308-9, as 'Crompescastell' (COD, I, 163). By 1640 it is decribed as 'altogether downe onely the Walls' and as a 'stumpe of a castle... at present wast without impvemt' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 158, 182). According to local tradition the castle was subjected to cannon fire by Cromwellian forces but did not fall. The castle was intact in 1840, as the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 157-8) mention that the pointed doorway of the castle was blocked with stones and that there was no way to enter the castle or determine the thickness of the walls as all the openings had been blocked up. The W wall and SW angle collapsed in August 1893 (article in The Nationalist 26th August 1893, reprinted in the Fethard & Killusty Newsletter, 2005 with a hand-coloured photograph dating to c. 1900 from Joe Kenny's collection). This four-storey castle is constructed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with a base-batter (average H 1.5-1.75m; Wth 0.4-0.47m). The outer W wall of the castle is gone and the S wall is largely broken out and what survives is ivy covered. The inner W wall and S wall are largely broken out above first-floor level. It has an unusual plan, consisting of a main rectangular block (ext. dims. c. 12m N-S; c. 10.2m E-W; int. dims. 7.58m N-S; 5.23m E-W) with a square garderobe tower (ext. dims. 3.62m N-S; 3.6m E-W; wall T 0.9m) projecting N from the E end of the N wall and a small projection (ext. Wth c. 2.8m W wall is broken out; D 0.35m) at the W end of the N wall to accommodate a spiral stairs. The castle appears to be of two phases of construction, being originally a hall-house surviving to first-floor level, with poor quality quoins and windows have crude limestone and sandstone jambs. The floors above this level have well-cut limestone quoins and late three-centred windows. Also, the original castle appears to have had timber flooring throughout, as evidenced by a beam-hole in the original N wall to support a first floor. In the rebuild, an inner skin was built on to the internal wall-face, supporting an inserted pointed vault over the first floor, probably contemporary with the later phase of elevation. The entrance to the later 16th-century rebuild was roughly centrally placed in the now collapsed W wall. It is likely that the original entrance to the hall-house was also in the W wall but at first-floor level. A limestone jamb of the later main doorway, with external double chamfer and vertical punch-tooling, lies on the S side of the entrance lobby. In the lobby area, the exposed E half of a murder-hole chute is visible, formerly accessed from the now collapsed mural chamber above the lobby. From the lobby a mural stair rises in the W wall towards a spiral stair in the NW angle. The spiral stair is broken out, though there are remains of one flat-headed stair light, at second-floor level, with a slop-stone sill. The ground floor was entered from the lobby in the W wall and this chamber was lit by three windows, two in the E wall and one in the S wall, all with original flat-arched embrasures with evidence of plank-centring. In the N wall there is a large flat-arched recess with a wall cupboard on the W side and there is another wall cupboard in the W wall. The timber first floor is carried on corbels and an offset on the E wall. The first floor was entered from the spiral stair via a doorway built into the vault. It was lit by at least two windows, a flat-headed loop at the S end of the E wall and a flat-headed single-light window in the N wall. There is a joggle-jointed fireplace in the W wall, S of centre. The garderobe chamber was accessed from an awkwardly constructed doorway in the NE angle. The second and third floor are not now accessible. Both were entered from the spiral stairs in the NW angle. At first-floor level the S and W wall are largely gone and only one broken-out window in the E wall is visible. A chamber in the garderobe tower was entered from a broken out doorway at the E end of the N wall. The windows which survive at third floor level are all three-centred and include a single-light in the N wall, a two-light mullion and transomed window in the E wall and two-light window at the E end of the S wall, only the head of which survives. There is a broken-out fireplace in the E wall, the masonry for the flue projecting externally where it is supported on a double row of corbels. At the E end of the N wall there is a doorway into a garderobe chamber and also in the N wall there is a wall cupboard. There are two large corbels projecting from the E wall at the top of the third floor, probably supporting a hammer-beam roof. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 20 November 2014

• TS070-045003 Settlement cluster
  Description

  In undulating pasture on top of low rise, within enclosure (TS070-045001-) and adjacent to W of castle (TS070-045002-). Settlement and the enclosure were levelled during 1970s land consolidation works. According to local information, the settlement was known as Crampstown and comprised of small random rubble stone built houses, which had collapsed and were covered in briars. Large mound (40m N-S; 13m E-W; H c. 2.5m) of earthen and stone material abuts scarp at SE and may be 1970s clearance material of the settlement. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-046 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on a gentle N-facing slope. Slight visible surface trace of semi-circular area (dims. 24m WNW-ESE; 18m ENE-WSW) defined by low profile rise in field ESE-WNW. Truncated by field boundary (long-axis WSW-ENE) to N. Latter has angle to NNE, which may represent a straightened bank. Enclosure levelled by 1982 (Cahill). Ringfort (TS070-047----) located 200m to SSW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, within interior of horse gallops, on a SW-facing slope. Circular area (dims. 40m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by bank (Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) in places (WNW-SE) which is reduced to scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 1.05m) SE-S-WNW. External fosse (basal Wth 0.8m; overall (Wth 4.1m; D 0.25m) E-SSW and W-N-NE is covered by thorn thicket along W-arc and furze along S-arc. Interior slopes down gently to SW and is riddled with rabbit burrows and interspersed with dogwood trees. Bank breached and further disturbed by dumping of earth at NE. Ringfort (TS070-048----) located 190m to NE. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• TS070-111 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on generally level area. No visible surface trace at ground level. Field boundary to N removed. Identified as oval area (map dims. 40m N-S; 30m E-W) on aerial photograph (GSI S.653/2, 16.4.1974). Not depicted on 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crampscastle.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Crampscastle, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crampscastle.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Crampscastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Crampscastle · Caisleán an Chrompaigh

Area

2,222,643 m² (222.26 ha, 549.23 acres)

Civil parish

Peppardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Middlethird

Electoral division

Peppardstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,444 people lived in 534 households in the Peppardstown electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bannixtown, Bawnkeal, Butler's-Land, Castlehiggins, Farranshea, Fethard, Friarsgrange, Knockboordan, Moan More, Moneypark, Roebuck's-Land

Placenames

Crampscastle on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.